ByTim Hanrahan

Updated with NRA comment

Gabby Giffords, the former congresswoman who was nearly killed by a gunman in 2011, has posted her entry in the ice-bucket challenge — and is asking a political archrival to take part in the challenge as well.

In the video, Ms. Giffords’s husband, former Shuttle Cmdr. Mark Kelly, is doused with ice water, and he then nominates three other people to take the challenge: his brother, a friend and Wayne LaPierre, chief of the National Rifle Association. The NRA, a longtime opponent of gun restrictions, has worked to stymie much of Ms. Giffords’s efforts for tighter rules on gun ownership.

“[W]e do hope, one day, we can agree upon more than just supporting ALS and Lou Gehrig’s Disease research,” says Mr. Kelly in the video.

A spokesman for the NRA said Mr. LaPierre will be doing the ice-bucket challenge, and sending a donation, when he returns from a trip.

Ms. Giffords was critically injured in a shooting outside a supermarket near Tucson, Ariz. She currently heads a gun-control super PAC, Americans for Responsible Solutions.

The ice-bucket challenge — in which people typically donate money and/or film themselves pouring ice-water over their head — has been the talk of the summer, raising tens of millions of dollars to fight ALS. Earlier this week, former President George W. Bush took the challenge, and urged former President Bill Clinton to do the same.

Reid J. Epstein contributed to this article

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